By Lisa Stiffler
Publication Date: 2026-06-05 17:28:00
— After 28 years at Microsoft, Rohan Kumar is heading to Salesforce as president and chief platform officer, based out of the San Francisco company’s Bellevue, Wash., offices.
The rise of automated AI agents is “reshaping how every company thinks about work, software, data, productivity and customer relationships,” Kumar said on LinkedIn, adding that Salesforce is well positioned to harness the technology for better workflows.
Kumar most recently held the role of corporate vice president of Microsoft Security (see the next Tech Moves item for his successor). Previous positions included CVP of Azure Data and leadership roles in SQL Server, the company’s database management system.
— Naseem Tuffaha is back at Microsoft as CVP of Microsoft Security, stepping into the role vacated by Kumar. Tuffaha spent nearly two decades at the Redmond, Wash., tech…
